EX Jehovah's Witness, ExElder, ExCOBE, Watchtower, Jehovah's Witnesses.
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- This was my first video I published back in 2020. I had to take a break from this type of work and reevaluate how I wanted to help those who were or still part of this religion. My last assignment as an Elder was the Coordinator. After many phone calls with the Service department and Legal Department I finally found the courage to type in youtube the following phrase "Jehovah's Witnesses and Child Abuse" That search revealed the Australia Royal Commission. There was a woman who testified by the initials BCG. Her case made it possible for Case Study 29. Ironically I would end up marrying the person, Shelly Braieoux, who woke me up. Keywords: Watchtower, Jehovah's Witnesses, CSA
Today, more and more of us are leaving this cult out of conviction. In five years, more than a million JWs have already left this American society, which is why today EXJW global activism has become the most active, numerous and dynamic "religious" dissidence in the world As more and more PIMOs tell me: “It is increasingly rare to see a new face in a hall of the kingdom.” Most new baptisms are people born into this cult.
The more the years pass, the more absurd the date 1914 will become. The “elastic” generation is already proving it and this is only the beginning.
Many thanks for the time you gave to your channel. One more subscriber.
27 years, I was introduced to it at 10 while my mother tried to deal with an abusive husband. All I can say is when Ms K brought that blue Truth Book to our door she made a miserable childhood into a horror show. I decide to go to collage and didn't have any interest in JW for many years. In my 30's I came back and ended up marrying a pioneer sister. She was molested by her step dad elder that was appointed by "holy spirit" while he was molesting her. Both of us were traumatized as children so the marriage ended up as expected, if you read professional literature about it. G Jackson's ARC testimony was the final straw and I now fully see them as frauds. S Lett is the best God can do for picking people to serve in heaven. They choose themselves so that explains it all. Shocking how many start partaking when they arrive at Bethel. Now to can enjoy weekends, not being tired all the time, not feeling worthless because you are not giving enough. I am glad I went to college and now that I'm 62 I can retire in relative comfort. I think of the window washer elder and what he is doing now that he is old and the end he promised and wished for never came.
Sorry I didn’t realize I had the comments turned off… Wow! Thank you everyone for subscribing and watching our videos. I'm humbled. My focus on my next video will be around the topic of trauma/ptsd from leaving a high control group. Please comment if you have had issues with this and any help you received. Thank you!
Thank you for sharing your heartfelt experiences.
I am sure people are glad for the help you are doing.
I will pray for you.
Here is a question for you:
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Do you think the fire has been lighted?
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Luke 12:49-53
“I came to start a fire on the earth, and what more is there for me to wish if it has already been lighted? 50 Indeed, I have a baptism with which to be baptized, and how I am being distressed until it is finished! 51 Do YOU imagine I came to give peace on the earth? No, indeed, I tell YOU, but rather division. 52 For from now on there will be five in one house divided, three against two and two against three. 53 They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against [her] mother, mother-in-law against [her] daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against [her] mother-in-law.”
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If EX-Jehovah's Witnesses really are being separated from their family in a unique, systematic and religious way all around the world then is it worth spending more time examining instead of just saying it must be a cult:
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Luke 12:54-56
Then he went on to say also to the crowds: “When YOU see a cloud rising in western parts, at once YOU say, ‘A storm is coming,’ and it turns out so. 55 And when YOU see that a south wind is blowing, YOU say, ‘There will be a heat wave,’ and it occurs. 56 Hypocrites, YOU know how to examine the outward appearance of earth and sky, but how is it YOU do not know how to examine this particular time?
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I recently did an interview on how my CSA was handled and also how the physical abuse from my pioneer mother was handled. I, as the victim, was not interviewed by the elders in either the case of sexual or physical child abuse. Thanks for your dedication to this serious problem in the cult.
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Lovely testimony brother.
Me and my wife woke up during the Covid lies and propaganda streaming from the GB & WT. Like you it sent me down the rabbit hole and experienced all the same emotions. However 40+ years as a JW I do not feel we're wasted as it was part of my journey and had made me who I am. Even though I now realize I was part of one of the world's largest cults God's grace still reached out to me and listened to my prayers 🙏. Truth is a very powerful thing isn't it my brother, and all lovers of it will follow it wherever it goes, even down the deepest of rabbit holes!! I and my family are all truly free now, and still have great empathy for all those still trapped inside the WT. We pray for them and take ❤ that each day many more are waking up and finding Christ our true saviour. May the Grace of God continue with you brother in your new purpose and ministry.
That beard is Majestic! You are making a difference sir!
I hear that I am "allowed to have a beard" lol
It's definitely a wake-up call when you realize alllll of the lies they have told.
Brother, that beard is downright epic. Thanks for sharing. We all need to support each other getting out of this org. It's no easy task.
Hi Kevin!
Thank you for your lovely video. I saw you on that documentary about CSA.
I was a JW for over 30 years and left 18 months ago.
I was a very zealous witness pioneering for over10 years.
I have done much research into the Watchtower Society and was horrified at what I discovered.
I simply was devastated and went through all the things you went through.
I kept my faith in the Bible God and Jesus, and found support online, and this led to my coming into contact with a British Christian group.
Life is much better now. I’m focusing on helping ex JWs recover from the spiritual abuse they have suffered.
Keep up the good work.
And welcome to CZcams 🤗
Thank you my brother!!
I was raised in a Salvation Army family and since i was a child my mom and some aunts taught me that I shouldn't listen to the followers of Charles Taze Russel because he was a false teacher.
I'm very glad to have watched this video.
May God give you the wisdom and courage to go on with helping those who have been abused by those monsters that by the way, don't exist only in JW but also in other organisations.
We have to join hands together to fight and try to destroy that evil.
Thank you so much for your video! We are very similar. I woke up 2018-2019. But started waking up around 2010 because of CSA issues. Seeing the Australian royal commission trial, and reading Crises of Concience gave me the knowledge and courage to walk away. Even though I lost everybody in my life, husband, kids grandkids. For several years I clung to the hope that it was just my area, my congregation that was not hankering things correctly,that Jehovah would eventually "fix" it. But after seeing the Governing body blatantly LIE to the court, then reading Ray Franz Crises of Concience I had to admitt that the corruption wasn't isolated pockets here and there but was comming directly from the top, and there was NO WAY the Loveing God Jehovah was directing the organization. The Hypocracy and corruption from the Governing Body was SO obvious and real it felt like I got sucker punched in the stomach. The Idea that I had been lied to, and everyone I had known and respected my WHOLE LIFE had been wrong and been duped was so devastating to accept. That little voice inside my head that used to say as a child, "What if what the world says is true?, what if WE are wrong, what if we NOT the one true religion? are REALLY a cult?" Once you see the Real truth of the matter, it can't be unseen.
I felt like you "it felt like I got sucker punched in the stomach" but life does get better. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you! What a great story. Looking forward to more.
I left after 60 years. Born in. ARC made it impossible for me to go back.
GB consider themselves G.O.D.
Nice presentation. Your description of dealing with the legal department rings very true!
Hey Kevin, really enjoyed your first video.
I was a JW in Melbourne, Australia.
I started waking up because of the Aussie Royal commission which really knocked the wind out of me. Those transcripts from case 29 were a hard read.
The final straw was the watchtower refusing to join the redress scheme, at that moment I was suddenly ashamed of "the truth", that is, "Jehovah's organisation".
I've been out for nearly 4 years after I DA'd in 2020.
Life does get better.
I don't regret my decision and it is having positive knock on affects for my children and other family members that have left.
Thank you so much. This is all very interesting! The Australian Royal Commission woke me up too. I was in it 50 years!! It was very hard. Your world as you knew it fell apart!
Thank you for sharing. My son was an elder. It was an eye opener for him as well. He woke up he says 5 years before he acknowledged it to me and only did that because I finally acknowledged it to him. He didn't want to be a stumbling block to me and his job and friends were deeply connected so they trudged on. When I shared the Australian royal commission video with him he heard those elders and Jeffry Jackson in particular and knew his doubts were well founded.
My son was dealing with stage 4 colon cancer during all of this. He passed away and said he felt Jehovah was an absentee parent and had forgotten his children suffering so much. In our hall alone while my son battled his cancer 5 others were diagnosed with cancers and all died within about the same timeframe of a couple of years. So much suffering. My son left 3 sons and his beautiful wife. He hated that he wasn't going to be here to guide his boys. I felt as my son did about god. Still can't bring myself back to him. Either he doesn't want me for leaving his only organization or he simply doesn't care .. we as a family left all 15 of us. The hall got very small. Anyway. Sorry for the rant.
Thank you for this video.
Oh and in our little hall in central Florida we had 6 pedophiles! One that wasn't found out yet but was selling pics of his 9 year old on the dark web finally caught big FBI sting when his daughter was 11 so all those years in the hall amongst us and our kids. He is doing 50 years and would you believe members of the congregation wrote letters to his character to perhaps get his sentence gown!! Thank goodness it wasn't. Wife still with him waiting for him 🤦🏼♀️ sick people.
Any way! Thank you!
So sorry to hear of your loss. Thank you for sharing, I appreciate it.
What a painful and heartbreaking time for you and your family my dear friend , my eyes are filled with tears ,this was beyond heinous, and some day soon,your pain will ease as we all learn the real truth about what has taken place, w/t are beyond showing cracks ,there is a Tsunami coming of exposure.
Keep as strong as you can under such terrible trauma.There are better times ahead.💗and also answers that we all need to hear,which will ease the pain in our hearts and minds.
With sincerest Christian Love & Prayers.
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@@Mithkahgday from Australia, my case was used at the ARC. i was shunned at the age of 11, i was marked by my abusers father a senior elder at that time. I was 11 my abuser 17. Nothing like losing my innocence, my social life and happiness destroyed. I could give you my full story too much to write. Keep safe to all readers of this comment.
I saw you in the CZcams video "Escaping Jehovahs Witnesses: Inside the dangerous world of a brutal religion" this really woke me up.
I just subscribed. Exjw also. I left 1994. Enjoyed your video. Welcome to Exjw YT community. Hope you can let us know more behind the curtain.
Thank You for sharing your experience. Much appreciated, I was invited to a committee meeting after sharing information that Watchtower had a 10-year NGO UN Membership and chose to jump ship after being outed by a British Newspaper and the Australian Royal Commission CSA, which the cult considers apostate information, although it is undeniable.
Thank you for your story. Every time someone leaves it's another brick out of the falling tower.
Thank you! And bless you! I knew there had to be a few good men who would find what they were doing in the back room to be unconscientious! You are one of them.
Honesty, integrity and courage. Please keep speaking out! The world needs to learn from your knowledge and experience of what goes on behind the curtain. The more voices the better! Thank you for sharing. From a 'never-in' ally.
I agree with every word you said . I actually cited listening. I was devastated . I finished Crisis of Conscience at The Weeknd .was raised in it .Baptised in 1991
I stumbled onto this video. I'm not a JW, but I know quite a few. They are good people. I can tell you are too. May God bless your ministry to spread the truth about abuse within the Watchtower Organization. And may God bless you and your wife, as well.
You sound like a lovely man and I'm so glad you have found happiness in your life. I have never been a witness but I have family members who are and I've seen the negative effects of shunning and soft shunning. To see your testimony it gives me Hope that my sibling will one day live an authentic life without Watchtower breathing down her neck.❤
Thank you friend, so many voices rising up.
We can see daylight through the cracks in the Watchtower.
I look forward to your next videos. I appreciate that you didn’t name call the JW’s that are still in. I’ve been inactive 30 years and will never go back. I’m glad I found your video.
I'd like to thank you SO MUCH!! Your video is straight to the point and concise. MANY OF US HAVE BEEN THROUGH IT! It's GREAT to hear and see an Ex Elder...especially a COBE! You will be able to help a lot of one's learning how to LEAVE and to get away from this evil cult. Congratulations on finding love and purpose with your new wife!❤ To be able to escape from this "unapproved", GODLESS cult is truly a FEAT!
Hey, when you said if this video helps just one person, its worth it, this is exactly my attitude about my actavism, cheers john Au
Thank you for sharing your story! I’m so glad to know there’s others out there seeking the truth about the WT. Please keep up your activism, it’s ones like me who need ones like you. Looking forward to more of your videos. Much love from Texas 💞🤠
Thanks very much for sharing. I look forward to hearing your wife's story. Her bravery and courage are very inspiring. Really looking forward to the interview ❤
Thank you so much for posting this video, can’t wait to hear more. It always brings a smile to my face when I hear of another person who is passionate about removing the bias and drama from being an exjw. The community is tumultuous but we need people like you to help us. So grateful for your story and you and your wife’s strength
Thanks for telling your story and being so informative. I just subscribed ❤. I am sure your activism will make a hug difference!!! Can't wait to hear what your wife has to say. Thanks for your time.
Thank you for sharing your story. The ARC hearings woke me up as well! It takes bravery to speak out. Looking forward to hearing more from you!
Thank you so much for sharing your experience with us. Very interesting and though provoking information. Looking forward to your next video. Greetings from Aus.
Hey Kevin, thank you for sharing your story. I left the JWs in 1997
Yay! I’m so glad you are speaking about this. Thank you!
Thanks for opening up. I will
Never understand how people in can learn about the CSA handling and still be ok with it all. I was out within two days of deep diving into the CSA issues.
Made an abonnement, greetings from Austria, Europe, good luck. Wonderfull to see you and soon your wife. Great job.
This channel was just shared with me and I support your voice of reason in this space!
Thank you for sharing your story!❤
Apostate greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱 💪🏼
Kudos for your courage, dedication, critical thinking skills and compassion for the wounded.
Best wishes on your full healing and on your sharing and spreading the message, the truth about the so called “Truth”.
Thanks for sharing your story and making this conscientious stand and being a another voice in this battle for truth!
Excellent concise and to the point first video. Crisis of Conscience woke me up also. Looking forward to your next video!
Kevin, thank you so much for posting your video! I am very much looking forward to seeing your future videos!
Congratulations on you and BCB finding your soul mate. Happy endings 🌺
Watching the video you refer to now.
Actually my wife is BCG, BCB was the other lady that testified in addtion to my wife...Thank you!
New subscriber here. I always had questions in regards to 'what happens behind closed doors'. Even though I was a MS for a number of years, I always felt there was more to the story. Looking forward to learning more.
You are a very good person, thanks for your video! I wish You and Your wife all the happiness in your life!
As an xJW (10 years now)
I don’t usually comment on these sites, as many ‘apostates’ are full of hatred and venom.
My motto is, get a life and stop beating your former brothers.
I could say so much here but,
I’ll just say this.
When I heard Jeffrey Jackson say ‘under oath’ when asked if JWs were the only people/organisation been used as Gods channel on Earth, and he answered, “It would be presumptuous of me to claim that”, I was in total shock!
A bare faced lie, coming from the mouth of someone claiming to be an anointed Brother of Christ!
When he knew full well that their publications repeatedly claimed to be ‘The ONLY’ source of scriptural truth!
The only conclusion I have come to is this, after spending almost 40 years as a JW, that the ‘Once Faithful and Discrete Slave Class’ has become in recent times, the ‘Evil Slave Class’?
Matt. 24: 45-51 only speaks of (ONE) slave, V45-47. No separate slave is mentioned!
Then in V 48-51 Jesus gives a warning, that this same slave, with a change of heart, could become ‘That Evil Slave’ (please read these verses)
I believe this is what has happened among the present governing body.
God will be the final judge of course.
As for me, there are too many other reasons why I’ll never return to the organisation, but I respect everyone’s personal choices!
I wish you well my friend!
Thank you for sharing. I am still on their chat group, but i do not attend the meetings anymore .
I was shunned for 20+ years on a rumor. No one ever asked me, no meeting, even my own mother never asked me. (Someone at work gifted me a deck of tarot cards & suddenly I was a witchcraft practitioner) because I didn't hide the cards, mor did I keep them. Recently had lunch with a cousin, a lifer & long time elder. I was telling him @ Norway & he assured me that he has never been given directive to hush up CSA. Some things never change. 8:36
Thanks brother. Welcome to liberty and truth. Look forward to your follow up.
Wow this is amazing!!! Cannot wait for more.
Wow, thank u for ur video. We’ve had similar experiences and responsibilities w/in the organization. My first call to The Legal Dept was my first crack, too. What was more alarming, I knew one of the brothers, personally, at the Service Desk. Since they are not allowed to reveal their names, he pretended as if we didn’t know each other.
I knew then the responsibilities of these men weren’t to the victims, but to protect the org’s image. However, the real wake up was catching WT in a lie/revisionist history of The Harp of God publication. B/c of everything I experienced, I knew that revision was a lie, & the rabbit hole I went.
always bothered me how the Service Desk and Legal Dept would not give their names. In fact, during my testimony at the Grand Jury, that was a point driven home to the Jury members.
Thank you from the bottom
Of my heart!
Great video, very enlightening, I'll definitely be watching the next one. Thank you.
Thank You with every beat of my heart 🙏❤️
Thank you for sharing, I’m happy that you and your wife got out of there and I hope your story can help others come to a similar realization
Thank you for sharing your experiences. You're doing a great service.
When you say this, you become an apostate to the Watchtower Society. Welcome to your fun and interesting life away from the crushing grip of a high control group. Welcome to the game.
Love this video. Love the way you presented the information. I’m
From Australia and left 1998
Blessings to you and your wife x
Love hearing from people from Australia!
Strength in advocating , do stay strong! 🤜
Thank you for speaking out.
Thankyou so very much
Really appreciate you.
Your video gave me a real lift. ❤
Thanks for sharing your experience
THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR STORY IT'S A GREATLY APPRECIATED❤
Thank you so much for sharing your experience! I was harshly bullied by an elder even though I was not even an unbaptized publisher, the treatment was so traumatizing that I was diagnosed with PTSD. The normalized abuse is not okay and need to come to an end!
Looking forward to more videos and testimony. Much love. Shared your video on Reddit exjw
Thank you!
Hello Kevin. I appreciate your video and experiences. Thank you.
As a 4th generation born-in ex-JW from NYC my family was considered one of JW "royalty " here. I had many "friends " everywhere I went, and Also in Brooklyn Bethel. Growing up a JW was an interesting experience, and I had big shoes to fill. My father, an elder so was my grandfather. Of course I was expected to pioneer, become a Bethelite and eventually climb the ladder in the Org. That didn't happen.
My father was very abusive to my mother and us. My mother left the organization, and the elders were unsympathetic to her. My father lost his position, and became extremely angry and ambitious to get it back. To the point that he would do anything. He remarried, step-family... it was an absolute train wreck. I was miserable. I got dismissed from his house by my stepmother who hated me because I refused to pretend we were a perfect family in the KH.
Eventually I got married, moved to NJ became a MS and tried to serve God as best as I could. The congregations were segregated, they were a mess and the elder bodies were incompetent, cowards. The District Overseer was a racist Tyrant, rude to the congregation and the elders cowered to him. Every congregation I went to was worse than the last. Eventually my wife divorced me under false accusation of adultery and I used that opportunity to get out of the Organization. I was never disfelloshiped because I never met with the elders on the matter. They were corrupt, and because I stood up to them and refused to bow, refused when offered to be made an elder and refused to be judged by them they had nothing to accuse me of except an accusation. Of course that didn't matter because they were corrupt anyway. Been out 17 years and absolutely NO regrets. My father died in January, a presiding Overseer of his own congregation in Florida. He refused for years to visit me, speak to me or get to know his granddaughters. I didnt attend his funeral services, i refuse to step foot in that Kingdom hall or any other. They are halls for for Freemasonic worship of a false god. Jehovah is NOT the living God and the dead shall bury the dead. I hate Jehovah, the organization and its vast lies. I refuse to allow my child to grow up around an institution that protects abusers and pedophiles. God, the "I AM " hates a coward and a liar. I appreciate your experiences and look forward to more videos from you. Beautiful beard btw.
Martin thank you for your stance against these corrupt elder bodies and the Watchtower society. They care not of the people in the congregations. Only to count time so that the Corporation can stay in favor with these Governments and receive funding.
Wonderful testimony, thank you, brother. Let’s keep moving forward. I have been shunned by my entire family for nearly 37 years. I will not give up hope.
Just subscribed thank you for the Video!!
You did good leaving, I feel so bad for those people they are all so broken and lost
Thank you Kevin! I enjoyed your video and look forward to your next one with Shelly BCG. The "inner work" is the struggle, challenging and fascinating. Peace be with you bro.
You've already Won my friend, freedom is of full knowledge, Thank you ❤
G'day Kevin, great work, I love your attitude and approach to this. Calm, objective and considered. Well done brother, great work!
Thank you for sharing your story! So helpful to all of us
Thank you for the update.looking forward to your next video
Hi Kevin, thank you for coming forward and expose in the JW organisation for what they really are. I am so grateful that I no longer belong to this organisation I woke up approximately 10 years ago. My late husband , four children and moved up to North Queensland Australia in 1989. We attended the same congregation and I soon befriended, Shelley and her older sister.I only knew a little of what went down in that congregation just before we arrived. So proud of you Shelley for having the courage to stand up and tell your story. ❤️❤️
Thank you for sharing!! Welcome back. Oh is your wife Sheryl who was on Mike & Kim's channel doing the interview yesterday? What a lovely & courageous woman!
Yes, my wife is Shelly Braieoux aka BCG
Thank you so much! Love from England 🏴
It surely needs courage and strength to go that way. Respect! At least you got to know your wife on this path.
Yes, my path led me to my wife which was totally worth it!
@@Mithkah So much positive replies here! You seem to be touching something that interests a lot of people. Good work!
Thank you I experienced the same feelings you did when I saw the Royal commission I had all kinds of different emotions but most of all I was mad! I’ve been out for about nine years and I wasted over 30 years in the cult. I am now free, and I am happy, keep up the good work
I left the witnesses 7 yrs ago. I grew up as a witness and just took things for granted. I understand your painfull process. I was an elder for twenty yrs including being a COBE. I'm now 53 yrs old and it was the best decision ever.
You were calming and more loving than any elder I dealt with for 37 yrs including my own father. I also liked that this video was short and to the point and not sarcastic and mean. You have another subscriber.
The truth shall you free.
Wow this was powerful! Thank you!
What?? Are we twins?? That is the very thing for me! February 2019!
It was the May 2019 WT but it came out electronically in February. I was devastated over the abuse my daughters had gone through and how it had been handled.
That magazine BLAMED THE PARENTS.
We loved your video and we thank you so so much for sharing your experience. We totally can relate to all the things you talked about. Australia royal commission really woke us up and we continued to examine the teachings of the organization and went down that rabbit hole. We are so happy to be freed from it and have no regrets we continue to pursue our worship and spirit and truth as we read God’s word and pray together express our faith with others when situation arises that appropriate. We do not feel the need to attach yourself to some other so-called Christian religion. Haven’t found any that teaches what we found to be the truth so we just worship in the way we know is an accord with the scriptures. May God continue to bless you and your endeavors
Thank you brother for sharing your experience, and please keep making videos it really helps to keep strong after leaving the false WT
Brave man! Thank you for this.
I would love to be part of a discord community with you or somewhere we could talk more about leaving parts of your faith.
I grew up as a missionary kid and all my family and friends are still in that world.
Thank you for your message.
Love your beard!
Ended the study years ago because I couldn’t get with people who want to be uneducated. I had relatives in the USA south who could have died just because they wanted a decent education . It just rubbed me the wrong way!
A lovely balanced experience. Never should we hate JWs, just guide them in the correct direction. I served as an elder for 20 years and giving talks at district and circuit assemblies, but decided to phase out 13 years ago simply because there was no love. Bless you Mithkah.
Thank you for your video!
Brilliant video and do very very true
Look forward to your future videos.
Thank you Kevin.
Thank you for this. I recently woke up 5 months ago but would have to say mentally I think it was more like 11 years of a tortoise pace waking. Once you give yourself permission to look elsewhere you indeed go down the rabbit hole and what a ride it is! I am grateful to people like yourself who are just stating facts about this organisation and helping others to also see the truth about "the truth" 🙏
I look forward to the interview with your wife, congratulations to both of you for finding eachother 💕
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Brilluant video. Look forward to mote.
So happy to find you! You can help many brothers and sisters. wish we could talk.
Connect with me on Facebook: facebook.com/KevNDean88
Great content l, keep it up!
Since I found out it's only a cult and not the truth, I was sooo relieved and happy! Not depressed at all! Life can only become better without the FEAR, OBLIGATION and GUILT! That's what I realized straight away.